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=Why Illness Develops?=
...each one should find out for himself why he is ill.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/09/19-june-1957#p5</ref> <center>~</center>
...when you take a wrong attitude, it immediately sets off all the disorders... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/03/june-20-1962#p6</ref>
<center>~</center> If the nervous being is...nervous and unstable...excitable, then ...there may even be a wrongly acute creative imagination which brings in disorders into the body that are nervous and not physical...<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p49</ref> <center>~</center> Depression and discouragement have a very adverse effect; they cut out holes in it[nervous envelope],... render it weak and ...open to hostile attacks... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/03/16-june-1929#</ref>
...passive meditation...leaves the vital and body passive and without defence against inertia, illness etc...The consciousness instead of being concentrated gets widely diffused and loosely extended...Concentration must in the earlier stages be active and dynamic with the consciousness gathered and capable of turning the will in any direction.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/29/concentration-and-meditation#p86</ref>
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The psychical prana interferes in all the higher operations to deform them,... limits thereby the operations of the mind and becomes the link of its dependence on the body and its subjection to fatigue, incapacity, disease, disorder, insanity, the pettiness, the precariousness and even the possible dissolution of the workings of the physical mentality… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/24/purification-the-lower-mentality#p5</ref>
==Affinity in the Being==
...if the illness has succeeded in touching the physical-physical...If it manages to pass through, to enter without one's being aware of it, it means there is some affinity somewhere, and the part of the being which has responded must be convinced.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/04/31-march-1951#p22</ref> <center>~</center> ...the sages say, "Disorder occurs because the nature has decided to be in disorder," it's not so silly.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/may-8-1965#p39</ref> <center>~</center> In the psychological domain, only the patients who do not want to recover, do not recover. Perhaps it is the same for physical diseases... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/16/5-january-1933#p3</ref>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body…
[Based on Aphorism<199>
Disease will always return to the body if the soul is flawed; for the sins of the mind are the secret cause of the sins of the body. So too poverty and trouble will always return on man in society, so long as the mind of the race is subjected to egoism.]<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-199-200#p1</ref> <center>~</center>
Disease is needlessly prolonged and ends in death oftener than is inevitable, because the mind of the patient supports and dwells upon the disease of his body. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/10/aphorism-386-387-388-389#p1</ref>[Based on aphorism<386>]
==To Teach a Lesson==
...all the so-called illnesses, everything, all the disorders are to make you learn a lesson—as soon as you've learned the lesson, it's over! But then, you are so slow and heavy, you take so much time to realize that it's a lesson that it drags on and on and on.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/05/october-14-1964#p63</ref> <center>~</center> It is to make you understand that whenever you are ill, something is ill in your being.<ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/01/april-24-1960#p1</ref> <center>~</center> ...One thinks of curing an illness only because one suffers. If it caused you no unpleasantness, you would never think of being cured of it. So, in the economy of Nature I think that the first purpose of physical suffering was to give you a warning. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p19</ref> <center>~</center>
...the state of illness was certainly a necessity, often a WILLED necessity ...by the soul in order to go faster on the path—to save time, to gain lives. And if you can, if you have the power to bring that soul into contact with the force that governs its existence and leads it towards progress, towards the Realization, you do a work of quite a superior quality.
==Old Habit of Consciousness==
...the body consciousness through old habit of consciousness admits the force of illness… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p54</ref> <center>~</center>
When you are open and in contact with the Divine, the Vibration gives you strength, energy; and if you are quiet enough, it fills you with great joy—and all of this in the cells of the body. You fall back into the ordinary consciousness and straightaway, without anything changing, the SAME thing, the SAME vibration coming from the SAME source turns into a pain, a malaise, a feeling of uncertainty, instability and decrepitude… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/02/october-2-1961#p15</ref>
...they ...drink wine as one drinks water. They drink it neat, and after some time they become ill. They have cerebral disorders... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref>
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...nicotine is a very serious poison. It is a poison that destroys the cells...when one smokes for the first time and it makes one very ill. And this should make you understand that it ought not to be done. Only, people are so stupid that they think it is a weakness and so continue until they get used to the poison. And the body no longer reacts, it allows itself to be destroyed without reacting: you get rid of the reaction. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/24-march-1954#p4</ref>
The feeling of illness is at first only a suggestion; it becomes a reality because your physical consciousness accepts it...It is so with the body consciousness and illness... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p22</ref>
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When a force is thrown on you or a vibration of illness, it carries to the body this suggestion...—the suggestion comes to the mind in the form, "I am weak, I don't feel well, I am catching a cold." <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p24</ref>
... illnesses try to come from one person to another—they attack, by a suggestion... or otherwise, the nervous being and try to come in. Even if the illness is not contagious, this often happens, but it comes more easily in contagious illnesses. The suggestion or touch has to be thrown off at once. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p31</ref>
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Something is wrong here or there in the body, a small thing;... If you are unfortunate enough to utter a word about it to anyone, and especially to the doctor...it instantly becomes an illness…. it's because the cells that are in disorder feel all of a sudden they are very important and very interesting persons!... If they have a movement that isn't harmonious, they exaggerate it—it becomes even less harmonious in order to assert itself more <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/06/august-4-1965#p33</ref>
...the main obstacle is your own vital movements. ...Quietness of the mind in facing your illness is also necessary—agitation stops the action of the Force. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/doctors-and-medicines#p9</ref>
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If you receive a blow in the vital, the body suffers the consequence... illnesses are the result of what happens in the vital: shocks, accidents, fighting, ill-will.... Externally this is translated by an illness. If one knows how it reacts on the physical, one goes to its source and can cure oneself in a few hours. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/29-april-1953#p8</ref>
<center>~</center> ...there is the vital which...takes a very perverse pleasure in... suffering...sometimes it becomes an occasion for enjoying the illness...all kinds of things which all come from the vital and are all detestable, ...But originally I think that it was this: "Take care!" it's like a danger-signal: "Take care, there's something out of order."<ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/06/17-november-1954#p20</ref> <center>~</center>
...vital when left to itself often invites illness, it finds it dramatic—thinks it makes it interesting to others, likes to indulge the tamas, etc. etc. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p63</ref>
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...there is always something in the vital physical which is pleased with becoming more weak and ill so that it can feel and lament its tragic case. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p64</ref>
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Illness in the body is like impurity in the vital,...It may happen that in throwing out the illness (the attacking force) one throws out also something within, some impurity which helped it to come, but that is the result of a Force working within and not of the illness. It is quite possible that an illness or attack can be transferred in this way from one to another and indeed it very commonly happens… <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwsa/31/illness-and-health#p62</ref>
<center>~</center> Diseases, accidents, catastrophes, wars, all that, is because the human material consciousness is so small, so narrow that it has a rabid taste for drama. And of course, behind there is the vital being having fun, influences too... all that enjoys an opportunity to delay the divine Work and make things difficult... But the seed of the difficulty is ...extreme pettiness of...the material physical consciousness—which has an absolutely perverse taste for drama... <ref>http://incarnateword.in/agenda/08/june-14-1967#p3</ref> <center>~</center>
...one must be very careful and look at oneself with great discrimination to discover the small part in oneself that...takes pleasure in being ill... there are many reasons. There are people who are ill out of spite,...out of hate...through despair, there are people... one is vexed and says: "...you will see the consequences of what he has done to me! Let it come! I am going to be ill." One does not say it openly to oneself, for one would scold oneself, but there is something somewhere that thinks in that way. <ref>http://incarnateword.in/cwm/05/22-july-1953#p57</ref>
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...[if] the illness returns. This means that the cause has not been changed, that the cause is in the vital and is still there; it is only the effect which has been cured. But if one can act simultaneously upon both the cause and the effect, and the cause is sufficiently receptive to consent to change, then one is completely cured, once for all.